CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO. $102 – Toronto symbol CNR

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO. $102 (Toronto symbol CNR; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 424.1 million; Market cap: $43.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.3; Dividend yield: 1.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.cn.ca) operates Canada’s largest railway. The company’s 32,350-kilometre network stretches across Canada… Read More

Plenty of reasons to like CN

We made CP Rail (see box at right) our “Stock of the Year” for 2012 because we felt its earnings would jump if it cut costs and made better use of its trains. A U.S.-based activist investor agreed with us and brought in CN Rail’s… Read More